The rare opera Cefalo e Procri by Ernst Heinrich Křenek , juxtaposed with a new creation by Silvia Colasanti , marks Valentino Villa ‘ s debut in opera direction at Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 2017, which in a few years becomes an important hub of his activity. In 2018/19 in Florence for Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Valentino Villa was the director the Intermedi della Pellegrina at the Bololi Garden, conducted by Sardelli, while in September 2019 he made a personal success with Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino set up at Teatro Malibran in Venice for La Fenice , conductor Tito Ceccherini. In 2021 he was invited by Spoleto Festival for Le false confidenze by Marivaux . In 2022 directed the premiere of the new opera Jeanne Dark by Fabio Vacchi, conductor Alessandro Cadario, for Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Valentino Villa graduated from Silvio d’Amico National Academy, with Luca Ronconi and graduated as a teacher of the Linklater method, Freeing the Natural Voice. Since 1999, as an actor, he has worked with Luca Ronconi at Teatro di Roma and Teatro Piccolo in Milan. Since 2006 he has begun an investigation into contemporary dramaturgy and into the relationship between prose and musical theatre, directing Party Time by Harold Pinter, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, A single Man by Christopher Isherwood as well as in Italy unknown texts . He directed unknown works in Italy by Jean-Luc Lagarce such as Noi, gli Eroi and for RAI , National Italian Radio, Music-hall ( actress Daria Deflorian Ubu Awarded ) In 2009, at the invitation of the Italian Restyle Festival in Berlin, he developed a project from Béla Bartok’s Castello di Barbablù ; since 2012 he has been a teacher at the Silvio d’Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts and a member of the Academic Council, and since 2013 he has been a performer in the show Ce ne andiamo per non darvi altre preoccupazioni by Deflorian/Tagliarini. In 2017 the relationship between the Alfieri language and Giuseppe Verdi is in the core of his Oreste by Vittorio Alfieri.